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Other than Your Sig Block - What You, the Webmaster, Need to Put in Every eMail
Written by Veronica Carrillo   
Saturday, 26 December 2009 08:45
So you want to become a webmaster? Webmastering is a complex job with more to it that one would expect. There are many different skill sets which are required to run a successful website, from writing content to designing graphics, or marketing the content on your website.
by VeronicaCarrillo


So you want to become a webmaster? Webmastering is a complex job with more to it that one would expect. There are many different skill sets which are required to run a successful website, from writing content to designing graphics, or marketing the content on your website.

When I first found Erik Stafford's Faster Webmaster program, I was quite skeptical. What, me do all this by myself? But then I took a closer look... His ad said that a grandmother learned how to do it in no time flat, and so I figured that if she could do it, maybe I could too. The ad worked just the way it was supposed to. And as it turned out, the program it sold did too. It really delivered the goods.

While all of these skill sets can help make a great webmaster, rarely does one single webmaster have the ability to do all of them. Instead, a webmaster can focus on a few different areas, such as providing content and marketing said content, while outsourcing the other aspects to freelancers or independent contractors, or even forming a team of like-minded individuals who would like to work on the website.

This can help save you time and money, as you can hire someone who is more knowledgeable than you in order to get the website online and keep it online. While outsourcing is definitely an option, if you'll be running a website for any length of time, its wise to at least familiarize yourself with coding languages and backend databases such as PHP and MySQL. Learning basic HTML and CSS will also be a huge advantage.

Scan through this list and see what phrases are ranking on page 2 of Google, in other words are top 20, and then check out the number of searches for that keyword. Make sure that there is a decent number of searches for that phrase but once you are satisfied that there is, write a post/page based around that key phrase and write some articles targeting that post.

Without too much effort you should be able to nudge your position from page 2 of Google to page 1..all for a word that you may never have considered or targeted. Next time, check your webmaster account and check out that table because you would not know what little gem you will find.

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